Reply to Redshirt mom vs. Tiger mom -- seeking a competitive advantage?

Forum Index » Private & Independent Schools

Reply to "Redshirt mom vs. Tiger mom -- seeking a competitive advantage? "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote]See, you just don't get it. The kids who aren't getting off their couches after college are not stuck in that rut because their parents didn't "mentor them" or put them in academic after school programs. This kind of failure to launch is emotional, NOT academic or intellectual. It affects kids who have no inner-directed reason to achieve, or are depressed, or feel like a failure if they can't be the absolute best at every possible thing. And the kinds of parents most likely to produce such an adult are the tiger parents.

Yeah, there are children of tiger moms who achieve everything their parents want them to (notice, their parents want them to. [b]This breed of parenting is a form of narcissism[/b].) and others who, once they can, do everything possible to thumb their noses at their parents Cause ultimately its the kids who are in control and the best way to prove that is to try to exert complete control over your children.

My DC is both a facebooking happy regular kid and a "high academically performing kid." Its only in the simplistic binary world of narcissism are the two mutually exclusive, are parents who aren't as controlling as them deemed destined to be failures. [/quote]

Is this similar to the [b]narcisism [/b]of redshirt parents hoping to groom the next Rhodes scholar, older and stronger Marlboro man, Kennedy-Reaganesque leader that is the star high scholar quarterback, baseball pitcher and soccer middie headed to Harvard and the Board rooms-- to fullfill  parental dreams?

This redshirting and breed of parenting is a form of parental narcissism.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics